Curriculum Vitae

Academic Employment

2022
Researcher / Postdoc in the research unit (Structuring the Input in Language Processing, Acquisition and Change (SILPAC: silpac.uni-mannheim.de/), University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Psycholinguistics and Language Development Group, Department of Social Sciences, Center for Cognitive Science

2012
Researcher (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin)/Doctoral Student, University of Kaiserslautern, Psycholinguistics and Language Development Group, Department of Social Sciences

2010-2012  
Teacher of German, Humboldt Institute, Konstanz, Germany

2008-2009
Teacher of German, National University of J. Fedkovych, Chernivtsi, Ukraine, Faculty of Theory and Practice in Translation, Department of Foreign Languages

Education

2009
Master in English Language and Literature, National University of J. Fedkovych, Chernivtsi, Ukraine

2008
Bachelor in English Language and Literature, National University of J. Fedkovych, Chernivtsi, Ukraine

2007
Master in German Language and Literature, National University of J. Fedkovych, Chernivtsi, Ukraine

2006
Bachelor in German Language and Literature, National University of J. Fedkovych, Chernivtsi, Ukraine

Professional Training

2023
One week course on “Statistics for linguists with R” with Stefan Gries,  Mannheim University, Germany.

June 2018
30 hours course on “Statistics for linguists with R” with Stefan Gries,  Center for Literacy & Multilingualism, Reading, UK.

March 2014
One-day workshop on Statistics for linguists: a practical introduction to 'R'. Phillips University of Marburg, Germany.

August 2013
Language Acquisition Summer School, German Linguistic Society (DGfS), Berlin, Germany

February 2013
Two-day eye tracking training on EyeLink 1000, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany.

July 2012
Bilingualism Summer School, University of Bangor, Bangor, UK

Research Interests 

I am interested in syntactic developmental patterns in L1 and L2 acquisition processes in children and adults. During my PHD, I investigated structural priming effects (structural repetition irrespective of lexical items after exposure) in monolingual German and bilingually raised German speaking children across development. In my current project as a postdoc in the research unit (Structuring the Input in Language Processing, Acquisition and Change (SILPAC: silpac.uni-mannheim.de/), I am focusing on within and cross-language structural priming effects in monolingual and bilingual English and German speaking children. The main goal is to prime frequency dependent grammatical constructions or atypical constructions within and across languages to understand how and to what extent these constructions can be adapted immediately and across time. Priming as robust method to study child and adult representations, allows to investigate whether this mechanism can drive language change.

Conference Presentations

2024

Kholodova, A., Karkaletsou., F., & Allen S. E. M. (September 2024). Investigation of core priming effects in monolingual and bilingual children: A developmental approach. Poster presented at the 30th Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing Conference (AMLaP), Edinburgh, Scotland.

Kholodova, A., Karkaletsou., F., & Allen S. E. M. (July 2024). Within and across-language priming trajectories across development in a structurally biased language. Talk presented at the XVI th International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL). Prag, Czech Republic.

Kholodova, A., Karkaletsou., F., & Allen S. E. M. (May 2024). Within and across-language priming and the lexical boost across development in a structurally biased language. Poster presented at the 5th Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC), Swansea University, UK.

2023

Kholodova, A., Karkaletsou., F., & Allen S. E. M. (2023). Priming effects based on prediction error across development. Poster presented at LingColone2023: Prediction in Language, Colone, Germany, June, 2023.

2022

Kholodova, A., Peter, M., Rowland., C. & Allen, S. E. M. (2022). Cumulative priming effects across development in monolingual and bilingual children. Talk presented at the 4th International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC). Tromso, Norway, August 2022.

Kholodova, A., Peter, M., Rowland., C. & Allen, S. E. M. (2022). Cumulative priming effects across development in monolingual and bilingual children. Talk presented at Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA). Frankfurt am Main, Germany, September, 2022.

2019

Kholodova, A., Rowland, C., Peter, M., & Allen, S. (September 2019).  Structural priming in a structurally biased language: Investigating abstract representations in bilingual children compared to monolingual children over development, poster at the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing Conference (AMLaP), Moscow, Russia.

2018

Kholodova, A., Rowland, C., Peter, M., & Allen, S. (November 2018).  Implicit learning and surprisal effects in a structurally biased language: A developmental study, poster at the Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, USA.

Kholodova, A., Rowland, C., Peter, M., & Allen, S. (September 2018). Investigating implicit learning and surprisal effects in a structurally biased language over development, Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing Conference (AMLaP), Berlin, Germany.

Kholodova, A., Rowland, C., Peter, M., & Allen, S. (April 2018) Syntactic priming in a structurally biased language: Investigating abstract representations in monolingual and bilingual children over development, Transdisciplinary Approaches to Language Variation (TALV), Tromso, Norway

2017

Kholodova, A., Rowland, C., Peter, M., & Allen, S. (October 2017) Syntactic priming in a structurally biased language: Investigating processing mechanisms over development, Many Paths to Language (MPaL), Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands

Kholodova, A., Rowland, C., Peter, M., & Allen, S. (September 2017). Ditransitive syntactic priming in a biased language: Investigating abstract representations over development. Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) 50th annual meeting. Zürich, Switzerland.

Kholodova, A., Rowland, C., Peter, M., & Allen, S. (September 2017). Syntactic priming in a structurally biased language: Investigating abstract representations over development. International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (ISMBS). Chania, Crete, Greece.

Kholodova, A., Rowland, C., Peter, M., & Allen, S. (May 2017). Syntactic priming in a strongly biased language: Investigating Continuity of processing mechanisms. Linguistic Diversity Meets The Brain (LDMTB): Future directions in the language sciences. Zürich, Switzerland.

2014

Kholodova, A. & Allen, S. (July 2014). Cross-linguistic structural priming in German-English bilingual children. Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Language Learning and Processing (CLiP). Tübingen, Germany.

Kholodova, A. & Allen, S. (April 2014). A cross-linguistic study on the Dative alternation: Structural Priming in German-English bilingual children. Sprachwissenschaftliche Tagung für Promotionsstudierende (STaPs) - Linguistic Science Conference., 5. Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany.

Selected Recent Publications

Karkaletsou, F., Kholodova, A., & Allen, S. E. M. (in press). Exploring bilingual adaptation to structural innovations: Evidence from Canadian French. Languages, 8.

Jacob, G., Katsika, K., Family, N., Kholodova, A. & Allen, S. E.M. (2024). Evidence for a constituent order boost in structural priming. Glossa Psycholinguistics, 3(1), 1–26. doi.org/10.5070/G60111517

Jacob, G., Katsika, K., Family, N., Kholodova, A., & Allen, S.E.M. (In press). Evidence for a constituent order boost in structural priming. Glossa Psycholinguistics.

Kholodova, A., Peter, M., Rowland, C., Jacob, G., & Allen, S. E. M. (2023). Abstract priming and the lexical boost effect across development in a structurally biased language. Languages, 8, 264. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8040264  www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/4/264

Kholodova, A. & Allen, S. E. M. (2023). The dative alternation in German: Structural preferences and verb bias effects. In E. Zehenter, M. Röthlisberger, & T. Colleman (Eds.), Ditransitives in Germanic languages: Synchronic and diachronic aspects (pp. 264-298). John Benjamins.[pdf]

Kushneryk W. & Kholodova A. (2011) "Виявлення природнодинамічного підходу до процесу засвоєння мови різновікових категорій білінгвів", [Detection of the naturally dynamic approach in the acquisition process at various age onsets in bilinguals.] Journal of Bukowina, 3, pp. 236 - 240.[pdf]

Kholodova A. (2009). "Феномен інтерференції у мовленні дітей білінгвів ", "The Phenomenon of Interference in Children's Speech", Theoretical and  Applied Linguistics on German Philology, National University of J.Fedkovych,  Chernivtsi,  pp. 264-269. [pdf]

Kholodova A., Kuschneryk W. (2008) "До проблеми лінгво-культурної свідомості білінгва", "The Problem of Linguistic and Cultural Consciousness of a Bilingual" Theoretical  and Applied Linguistics on German Philology, National University of J.Fedkovych, Chernivtsi, pp. 213 - 219. [pdf]
 
 

Teaching at the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau

• Methods course on ‘structural priming’ for lab rotations student in their master’s program in cognitive science

• "Heterogene Lerngruppen: Sprache in der Schule" (Heterogeneous learning groups: Language at school) for teacher-training students in various content area subjects

• Follow up Seminar in development “Sprachförderung im Fach als Teil des Lehrberufs” (Language training within a subject as part of the teaching profession)

• English, levels A2 - B1

• German, levels A1-C1